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Once upon a time, I visited a far off land shaped like a boot. I think I'd like to go there again.

...there's something fundamentally wrong in my estimation in smiling at an inanimate piece of technology. Next thing you know, I'll be believing that all those people I talk to on the internet are real, when I know full well it's a clever piece of AI...

Even those of you I've met aren't completely real; Tony Eccles? Robot... Sam Williams? Hologram... Metaphorae? Cyborg... Streetpix du jour? Simulant... Lou Bert? Very clever, but definitely an artificial construct... Ludbah? Terminator... Sid Pena? Android... Helen HatesPeas? One of the Stepford Wives... Joannablu? Fembot...

You'll all go and try and prove me wrong now, won't you?

...at least that's what Chapter 2 is called.

This is #1 in a very short series (of 1) of really crap photos.

I've got my feet up as you can see. I had an arthroscopy done on my right knee yesterday, the net result of which is a moderate amount of discomfort (mostly to my chest for some inexplicable reason), a standing instruction to avoid high-impact sports (running, squash, soccer), and a little time to catch up with some reading then.

In my case, the snappily titled Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence in Your Enterprise. Somewhat surprisingly, it's proving to be remakably readable and for someone who seems to have made a fairly impressive career for himself, David S. Linthicum (or Dave, as he refers to himself), doesn't seem to take himself overly seriously - except when he repeatedly reminds you that the book will tell you all you need to know about clouds and Service-Oriented Architecture and putting them together, all in one book - if I'd not seen it with my own eyes, I'd not have believed such things possible. That's doing the book a bit of a disservice though, I'm actually finding it rather interesting. You could even say compelling...

Part of a very rapid walk through of the Driskill.

Culture, Austin style

I never did quite work out what a smoke shop was. To be fair, I didn't enquire too hard...